Global climate change wasn’t yet known in most circles when this song was written. Maybe climate scientists had begun to speculate by that time, but certainly it was not the mainstream consensus.
The time the song was written we were all paranoid about nuclear war (see also Pop Goes the World). Antarctica is probably both a more general notion of emotional coldness. But also could be a reference to ‘nuclear winter’ which would occur after a major nuclear war.
Global climate change wasn’t yet known in most circles when this song was written. Maybe climate scientists had begun to speculate by that time, but certainly it was not the mainstream consensus.
The time the song was written we were all paranoid about nuclear war (see also Pop Goes the World). Antarctica is probably both a more general notion of emotional coldness. But also could be a reference to ‘nuclear winter’ which would occur after a major nuclear war.